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a·pache  (-psh, ä-päsh)
n. pl. a·paches (-psh, ä-päsh)
1. A member of the Parisian underworld.
2. A thug; a ruffian.
[French, from Apache, Apache Indian; see Apache.]
Apache
Noun
pl Apaches or Apache a member of a Native American people of the southwestern US and N Mexico [Mexican Spanish]
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Noun1.apacheApache - any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma
Mexico, United Mexican States - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan, Athabascan - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska
2.apache - a Parisian gangster
gangster, mobster - a criminal who is a member of gang
3.Apache - the language of the Apache
Athabascan, Athapaskan language, Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athapaskan - a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir)
Chiricahua Apache - an Apache language
San Carlos Apache - an Apache language
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It is foolish to go mad from thirst and fall by Apache bullets, or be skinned alive--it is in bad taste.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
A riot, or a merry-making--they could not tell which --was taking place in the Japanese town, as Saxon and Billy steamed out on the Apache, bound for Sacramento.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
Also he saw the river steamer Apache lying ahead of him, and a couple of deck-hands disentangling the shreds of his net from the paddle-wheel.
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